Gluten Was Causing Schizo Problems

I was reading your post and I'm really glad of it iv been told IV got mental health problems.witch I never believed I had .and only had signs when I had sickness with Loose stools .then last year gp told me im a celiac. Thay are still treating me for mental health.dose any body think the mental health now or can they be wrong.they are great but I need to know.

I was reading your post and I'm really glad of it iv been told IV got mental health problems.witch I never believed I had .and only had signs when I had sickness with Loose stools .then last year gp told me im a celiac. Thay are still treating me for mental health.dose any body think the mental health now or can they be wrong.they are great but I need to know.

Hi Dawn,

The thread on short temper might be interesting to you. You can do a search on gluten ataxia and find information about how gluten can affect the brain. Also there is the theory that gluten can interact like opium with some brain recepters. And pshizophrenia seems to be related in some people also. So, gluten seems to be able to affect people's brains in multiple ways. Malabsorption of nutrients critical to brain function is another possible problem. The nice things is, there is a chance of relief from symptoms by switching to and following the gluten-free diet. Nueral symptoms may take longer to clear up than gut symptoms though. Nerves are slow to grow and heal. It's important with the nueral symptoms to stay 100% gluten-free if possible.

Some possible ways gluten can affect the brain, in no particular order:

I havent been back to this forum since my last posted "experiment" i was going to, but never made it.

But Im going to do it again, i have to, im out of options.

Ill try to throw in some updates over the months.

Im going "grass-family"-free. The sugar plant comes from the same taxinomical family as grains, so im avoiding that whole family.

Its dumb, i dont need to eat grasses/grains, so why hurt myself.

All i remember is i was on ZERO medications. Life wasnt "easy", but I got through some hurdles.. then when I decided to give up 2 months later because i was sick of restricting my diet, well,
Anyways..

I used to be a raw foodist once. Its very amazing the power of foods.

The great thing is we can exert some control, simply by avoiding certain foods.

I tried posting that i am in fact doing this way of eating again. Just not going to be a nazi about it thats all. Like if im going to eat a slice of pizza, just have it etc then go back to grain free for awhile.

You can cheat on your diet if you want. It is only hurting you. Many people do that of course, cheat on their diets. The immune process isn't going to stop and start on a dime though. It starts quickly and tapers off very slowly. So the affect of cheating once may be a few months or more of increased sensitivity to gluten. If a few months of affects are not a problem, I can see where it might not seem important if you cheat once in a awhile.. Many of us have gastro symptoms or other symptoms that are very unpleasant though. And that makes cheating less attractive. Besides that, some people have no symptoms from gluten at all (silent celiac). For those people they can't even tell for sure when they are damaging their bodies. So judging how much damage is being done to our bodies by our symptoms we get is kind of useless.

It is safer not to cheat, and that is really the only way to know if you will get better over a period of time.

CanineGluten, thanks for making me smile. Your posts are quite entertaining, especially the one that has you not eating any grains but drinking a beer.

I can't imagine trying to eliminate all grains all at once. It doesn't surprise me at all that you keep going back to having them in your diet.

How about focusing on just gluten, which is highly likely to be causing problems for you, but keeping other grains like rice, which would be less suspect ... and would give you the carbs you need for energy?

So that means getting rid of anything made from wheat, barley and rye, and all of the hidden sources of gluten. Think you can get by on wine and tequila until you can track down a gluten-free beer?

And though it is tough at first, doing some more research into what to avoid when it comes to hidden sources of gluten (such as malt) and ways to avoid contamination can make going gluten free a ton easier and less painful.

Best of luck to you. When you do get things sorted out, Netflix would be a great way to catch up on all of those movies you've missed.